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22 WORLD NEWS KENYA’S No. 1 FREE NEWSPAPER Liberia pulls first one in tree for aid scheme MONROVIA, Wednesday Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down trees in return for development aid. Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (Sh13.3 billion) to stop deforestation by 2020. There have been fears that the Eb- ola crisis would see increased logging in a country desperate for cash. Norwegian officials confirmed details of the deal to the BBC at the UN climate summit in New York. Liberia’s forests are not as big as other countries but the country is home to a significant part of West Africa’s remaining rainforest, with about 43 per cent of the Upper Guinean forest. It is also a global diversity hotspot, home to the last remaining viable populations of species including western chimpanzees, forest elephants and leopards. But since the civil war ended in 2003, illegal logging has become rife. In 2012, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attracted international criticism when she handed out licences to companies to cut down 58 per cent of all the primary rainforest left in the country. After protests many of those permits were cancelled. Some researchers have connected the current outbreak of Ebola with the widespread destruction of the forests, US in new strikes near Syria-Turkey border in IS crisis Bombing targeted Kurdish town of Kobane besieged by jihadist fighters bringing people into contact with natural reservoirs of the virus. Now the Norwegians and the Libe- rian government have signed a deal that they both believe will protect the forests into the future. -BBC in a country desperate for cash There have been fears that the Ebola crisis would see increased logging Nigerian MPs oppose arms deal with South Africa ABUJA, Wednesday About 50 MPs have stormed out of Nigeria’s Lower House of parliament after a motion to discuss an alleged South African arms deal was blocked. Last week it was reported that government agents took $9.3m (Sh830 million) in cash to South Africa to buy weapons. T h e speaker of d e p u t y the House of Representative said that, as it was an issue of national security, it could not be broached. The upper chamber has also summoned security chiefs over the issue. Correspondents say the revelations have shocked many Nigerians and there have been calls for an inquiry. South African police said last week customs officials seized the money in $100 bills in three suitcases that arrived on a private jet from Nigeria at Johannesburg’s Lanseria airport earlier in September. -BBC Damascus, Wednesday New air strikes have targeted Islam- ic State (IS) militants in Syria, hitting areas close to the border with Turkey. Syrian activists reported strikes around the Kurdish town of Kobane, which has been besieged by IS fighters for several days. Witnesses saw two military aircraft approaching from Turkey but Turkish officials denied its airspace or bases were used in the attack. The US-led coalition expanded its raids against IS into Syria on Monday. But the aerial bombardment near Kobane has not been confirmed by the US or any coalition member. Turkish military sources said neither its air force nor the US airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey had been used. Overnight, US Central Command (Centcom) confirmed it had conducted two more strikes in Syria, hitting two IS vehicles in Deir al-Zour in the east of the country. Possible role IS has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq, and the US has launched nearly 200 air strikes in Iraq since August. Meanwhile, the BBC understands that the UK Parliament will be recalled on Friday to discuss Britain’s possible role in air strikes on IS targets. Speaking on Tuesday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said an international coalition was needed to “destroy” IS, adding that it was a fight “you cannot opt out of”. The Dutch government is also con- sidering military action and will hold a special Cabinet meeting today to discuss deploying four F-16 fighter jets. The IS advance in northern Syria has created a refugee crisis in neighbouring Turkey. FRANCE FURY AT TURKEY AFTER SUSPECTS ARE PLACED IN WRONG PLANE A senior French minister Drian has criticised Turkey after plans to arrest suspected jihadis returning from Syria collapsed when they were put on the wrong flight. As security agents waited at a Paris airport, the three suspects were flown to Marseille in southern France, where they left the airport unchallenged. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said there had been a “mix-up”. -BBC EU OFFERS TO SUPPORT CONGO IN FIGHT AGAINST KILLER EBOLA VIRUS The European Union (EU) Ebola will support the Republic of Congo in the fight against Ebola through training of health workers and boosting capacity of the national laboratory to test the virus. “We have agreed to continue exchanging views on what role the EU could play, especially with regards to training of health workers and reinforcing a national laboratory to test Ebola virus, “ head of EU delegation in De Lange Saskia in Brazzaville. -XINHUA President Barack Obama ordered the Syrian bombardment to contain expanding Islamic State territory. - FILE PHOTO Aid agencies said some 130,000 Kurdish refugees, most of them from Kobane, crossed the border at the weekend. Turkey had initially refused to take part in military action against IS, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled a possible change in policy on Tuesday. “We will give the necessary sup- port to the operation. The support could be military or logistics,” he told reporters in New York, where he is attending the UN General As- EX-VATICAN ENVOY HELD, AWAITS CRIMINAL COURT ARRAIGNMENT IN ROME Jozef The Vatican has placed its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, under house arrest on charges of sexually abusing children. The former archbishop was defrocked in June after a Church tribunal found him guilty of abusing Dominican boys. He will now be tried by a Vatican criminal court, becoming its highest official to face abuse charges there. Wesolowski served as a papal envoy to the Dominican Republic for five years. -BBC sembly meeting. Correspondents say Turkey may be willing to get more involved after it secured the release of 49 Turkish hostages who had been held by IS militants in northern Iraq. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokes- man Rear Adm John Kirby said the US strikes in Syria had disrupted IS but warned that the right against them would take years. “We do believe that we’re talking about years here,” he said. -BBC STUDENTS REJECT MOVE BY CHINA TO RULE OUT FREE ELECTIONS IN 2017 More than 1,000 Hong Students Kong students have taken their pro-democracy march to government offices, as part of a week-long boycott of classes. The march came a day after student leaders said 13,000 students had taken part in a rally at a university campus. They are protesting against a decision by Beijing to rule out fully democratic elections in Hong Kong in 2017. The students’ boycott is seen as a prelude to a larger demonstration planned for 1 October. -BBC Thursday, September 25, 2014 / PEOPLE DAILY IN BRIEF